My garage "find"

Driving home today, I took some back roads. I passed a boarded up old farm house and 3 bay garage. I've passed it before, but this time a panel from one of the garage doors had fallen out. Something shiny caught my eye. I drove for about another mile before I thought, why not. Whipped a u-turn and headed back. No one was around and there were wide open fields around the place. I walked up to the garage and poked my head in only to find....a couple of old farm tractors. They didn't look like anything special. The garage had already been cleared out. One of these days I'll find something worth while. No pictures, but I had that small rush as I walked up to the garage hoping to find a missing Bugatti or something cool. There are plenty of old barns and garages around this area that there has to be something hiding in "plain sight". One day...

When I was a teenager my dad and I were tearing down an old barn and there were a ton of old hubcaps in it and the old guy said I could keep them, so that was my "barn find" lol a bunch of old hubcaps. The worst part is he said there was a on of old card In there but they sold them all super cheap to some guy ho was going to part them out.

nepa03focus wrote: "he said there was a on of old card In there"

I am trying to figure out this riddle.

I am sure I will miss any rare car find. Some peaple have the knack, I do not.

I thought you were going to say you found a red barchetta.

pjbgravely wrote:

nepa03focus wrote: "he said there was a on of old card In there"

I am trying to figure out this riddle. I am sure I will miss any rare car find. Some peaple have the knack, I do not.

...a ton of old cars...??

Back when I was about 10 years old, I rode with my Dad out to an old farm in western New York, where he had heard that a farmer had an old car in his barn. My Dad was always talking about his first car, which was a '32 Chevy coupe, and he was hoping this might be one. We got there and when the door was opened, there was a dead stock 1932 Ford 5-window coupe V8. Paint and upholstery was bad, but it was all there except for half of the front bumper, and it supposedly ran. The farmer wanted $250 (this was about 1956). But my dad was a Chevy guy through and through, so he said no and we drove home. Twenty years later he was wishing he hadn't been so adamantly pro-Chevy. And of course, neither he nor I ever found a "barn find" again.

Yes old cars my bad I'm on my phone lol. Old cars, nothing crazy but some old muscle cars and whatnot.

This is in my neighborhood:

'73 Imperial. Hasn't moved in at least 10 years (i.e. since I've lived here)

EastCoastMojo wrote: I thought you were going to say you found a red barchetta.

His uncle preserved the old machine for 50 odd years. To keep it as new was his dearest dream.